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The Rise of Guardian Democracy : The Supreme Court's Role in Voting Rights Disputes, 1845-1969 /

Elliott, Ward E. Y.

The Rise of Guardian Democracy : The Supreme Court's Role in Voting Rights Disputes, 1845-1969 / Ward E. Y. Elliott. - Reprint 2014 - 1 online resource (391 p.) - Harvard Political Studies ; 13 .

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Tables -- I. Introduction: The Dynamics of Democracy and the Guardian Ethic -- II. Voting Rights in the Pre-Intervention Period, 1776-1868 -- III. Intervention by Interpretation, 1868-1962: The Black Voting Rights Progression -- IV. Urbanisin and the Equal Districts Progression: From the Progressive Reformation to the Guardian Ethic -- V. Political Questions, Wine, and Cod-liver Oil-the Tactics of Transubstantiation in the Legislative Period -- VI. The Fundamental Principle and the Quagmire -- VII. Prometheus, Proteus, Pandora, and Procrustes Unbound: The Political Consequences of Reapportionment -- VIII. The Court's Constituencies, Constitutional Atheism, and the Future of the Guardian Ethic -- Epilogue: Was There a Better Way to Do It? -- Appendix Voting and Electoral Provisions of the Constitution -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Table of Cases -- Index -- Backmatter

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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9780674331013 9780674331020

10.4159/harvard.9780674331020 doi


Kiesrecht.
Recht.
Suffrage--History.--United States
Suffrage.
Supreme Court (VS).
Suffrage -- United States -- History.
United States. Supreme Court.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.

KF4891 / .E43

342/.73/07